Painful Choices By Thomas Sowell
Let's talk sense about the election. Nothing is to be gained by refusing to face the hard facts. What are those facts?
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November 8, 2016
November 8, 2016
What Hath Trump Wrought? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"If I don't win, this will be the greatest waste of time, money and energy in my lifetime," says Donald Trump.
November 8, 2016
2016: The Demise of Small-r Republican Politics by Michael Barone
Among the many complaints I have seen about this squalid presidential election -- the most dismal choice of major-party nominees since 1856 -- there's one that I find missing: that it shows how our politics have become less republican.
November 5, 2016
Win or Lose, Hillary is Finished By Ted Rall
Hillary Clinton, they say, is the most qualified person ever to have run for the presidency. They are, of course, mistaken. But one week away from an election that, for once, really may prove to be the most important of our lives, what boggles the mind of those of us who are paying attention is just how terrible a candidate Hillary Clinton has proven to be.
November 4, 2016
Hillary's High Crimes & Misdemeanors by Patrick J. Buchanan
If Hillary Clinton is elected president on Tuesday, and if what Bret Baier is reporting from FBI sources on Fox News is true, America is headed for a constitutional crisis.
November 4, 2016
Is Team Clinton Booting the Election? By Michael Barone
In my Nov. 1 column, I looked at the presidential election through the lens of the old children's radio show "Let's Pretend" -- examining how things would look if it turned out that Donald Trump ends up winning.
November 3, 2016
Is Clinton Slipping? By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and Geoffrey Skelley
Hillary Clinton has picked an awful time to hit one of the rough patches that has plagued her throughout the campaign. Now with just days to go until Election Day, there’s added uncertainty about the outcome. But while she may not be on the brink of an Electoral College win the size of Barack Obama’s in 2008 or even 2012, her position as the clear frontrunner in this race endures.
November 2, 2016
The Rest of Your Ballot By John Stossel
The presidency isn't the only choice next week. There are more issues than "Who's worse, Trump or Clinton?"
November 2, 2016
Hell Hath No Fury Like a Weiner Scorned by Charles Hurt
Behold, the Revenge of The Weiner.
November 2, 2016
A Fifth Clinton Presidency? Hill, No! By Michelle Malkin
I keep hearing that Hillary Clinton would be "Obama's third term." The math is wrong. Barack Obama served the Clinton crime family's third and fourth term. Electing Hillary would doom America to a fifth Clinton White House.
November 1, 2016
The Left's Vision By Thomas Sowell
The political left keeps announcing, as if it is a new breakthrough discovery of theirs, that life is unfair.
November 1, 2016
Hillary's Watergate? by Patrick J. Buchanan
After posting Friday's column, "A Presidency from Hell," about the investigations a President Hillary Clinton would face, by afternoon it was clear I had understated the gravity of the situation.
November 1, 2016
Let's Play 'Let's Pretend' By Michael Barone
When I was a child, there was a Saturday morning radio program called "Let's Pretend." It used words and sounds to encourage young children to paint pictures in their heads of make-believe worlds.
October 29, 2016
Hey Lefties: Hillary is Not Your Friend By Ted Rall
If you lean left, the only presidential candidate who shares your values is Dr. Jill Stein. But she can't win. The two major parties have left -- sorry for the pun -- you and your concerns high and dry.
October 28, 2016
A Presidency From Hell? By Pat Buchanan
Should Donald Trump surge from behind to win, he would likely bring in with him both houses of Congress.
October 28, 2016
So Far, Trump Not Sinking Down-Ballot Republicans By Michael Barone
Could a flailing Donald Trump campaign hurt down-ballot Republicans and cost the party majorities in the Senate and House? That seems possible, if he loses to Hillary Clinton by a margin similar to those in most current polls and if Americans keep on straight-ticket voting as they have increasingly in recent years.
October 27, 2016
The State of Play With a Dozen Days to Go by Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and Geoffrey Skelley
Another week has passed in the presidential race and it appears that Donald Trump is not making up much if any ground on Hillary Clinton. Last month, we coined the term “Fortress Obama” to describe an outer and inner ring of defenses Clinton had against Trump as she sought to recreate Barack Obama’s Electoral College majority. The outer ring consisted of states like Florida, Iowa, Nevada, and Ohio — states that Obama won twice but that are vulnerable to Trump — as well as North Carolina, which Obama carried only in 2008. These are states that Trump needs but that Clinton could probably do without. Then there’s the inner ring, states like Colorado, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin, none of which Clinton can afford to lose if Trump were to completely knock down the outer ring.
October 26, 2016
Hillary's Climate of Hate By Michelle Malkin
Who are the haters? Who are the autocrats? Who are the serial abusers of power?
October 26, 2016
Trump May Be What Grant Was for Lincoln’s America By Charles Hurt
Once again Donald Trump revealed his true inner racist self by going to a famous Civil War battlefield in a nod to the spectacular turning point in that epic war.
October 26, 2016
The Ruling Class by John Stossel
America is often described as a society without the Old World's aristocracy. Yet we still have people who feel entitled to boss the rest of us around. The "elite" media, the political class, Hollywood and university professors think their opinions are obviously correct, so they must educate us peasants.
